Tag Archives: James Franco

San Francisco, the late 1990s; 19-year-old Greg Sestero (Dave Franco) is trying to become an actor and is awestruck by the take-no-prisoners approach of the mysterious Tommy Wiseau (James Franco). The story behind The Room (2003), the cult item that’s often called the most unintentionally hilarious bad movie ever made, is pretty straightforward, as we … Continue reading The Disaster Artist→

The Golden Globes are already coming up. The show will be on NBC this Sunday and Seth Meyers debuts as host. Should be a solid experience, but perhaps with few surprises. One thing we can be certain of is many references to #metoo, especially on the red carpet. Now here’s my predictions – category by category. … Continue reading They Will Win Golden Globes 2018→

ONE MAN. TWO LIVES. After suffering panic attacks that he initially mistakes for a heart condition, gay activist Michael Glatze (James Franco) finds God and starts turning his back on his sexuality. The real-life story of a man who chose the Christian right over his old life is a sad portrait of a man who’s … Continue reading I Am Michael→

THE PATH TO PARADISE BEGINS IN HELL. In 2104, a colony ship called Covenant is hit by a shockwave and makes its way to a nearby planet where the crew finds a ship connected to the earlier Prometheus mission. This sequel to Prometheus (2012) is set a few years later, and if a lack of … Continue reading Alien: Covenant→

BE WILLING TO GO ALL THE WAY. Young Sean Lockhart (Garrett Clayton) becomes a gay porn sensation, but when two fledgling producers (James Franco, Keegan Allen) want to use him for a movie, a conflict turns deadly… The story of how real-life porn star Brent Corrigan started out and became involved in the murder investigation … Continue reading King Cobra→

OF ALL THE GUYS HIS DAUGHTER COULD HAVE CHOSEN… Ned Fleming (Bryan Cranston) and his family go to see his eldest daughter (Zoey Deutch) who’s living with a man (James Franco) who turns out to be wealthy but also childishly eccentric and vulgar. There’s a special place in hell for every lousy Christmas comedy, and … Continue reading Why Him?→

A HERO WILL RISE. A hot dog sausage and his bun girlfriend realize that their existence at the Shopwell’s supermarket is based on a lie – those groceries that humans bring out of the store are not saved, but eaten. A 3D animated comedy targeted at adult audiences, a very raunchy, foul-mouthed spoof of Disney/Pixar … Continue reading Sausage Party→

WHEN YOU FIGHT THE PAST, THE PAST FIGHTS BACK. Maine English teacher Jake Epping (James Franco) is introduced to a time-traveling portal by his friend (Chris Cooper) at a local diner, and decides that he will use it to prevent the murder of John F. Kennedy. The engrossing Stephen King thriller gets a worthy but … Continue reading 11.22.63→

THREE WISE MEN. ONE WILD CHRISTMAS. Three best friends (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie) are going out on Christmas Eve in New York City as they always do… but a fourteen-year long tradition is about to end. The director and stars of 50/50 (2011) are reunited for a comedy that looks like they usually … Continue reading The Night Before→

X MARKS THE LEGEND. After depicting Allen Ginsberg in Howl (2010), documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman took on another real-life person in fictionalized form, porn star Linda Lovelace, and tell the story of how she broke away from her conservative parents, found a career after making the most famous porn flick in history, … Continue reading Lovelace→

FROM THE WESTERN CAPITALIST PIGS WHO BROUGHT YOU NEIGHBORS AND THIS IS THE END. When they unexpectedly land an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a dim-witted TV host and his producer (James Franco, Seth Rogen) are approached by the CIA who wants their help to kill the dictator… The directors’ second movie after the … Continue reading The Interview→

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT YOUR HOME? After an undercover mission, former DEA agent Phil Broker (Jason Statham) is hiding with his daughter in a small Louisiana town, but a local drug dealer (James Franco) finds out who he is… You can easily imagine screenwriter Sylvester Stallone in the lead if this movie … Continue reading Homefront→

Neil Patrick Harris is hosting next year’s Academy Awards. Anyone who has seen him helm the Tonys or the Emmys knows that this is good news. I’ll soon get to why, but let us first kick off a list of who’s hosted the past seven years and how they merit: 2008: Jon Stewart – This was … Continue reading The 7 Most Recent Oscar Hosts Rated→

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I studied film at Halmstad University and practical filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. Now I'm a critic for the Swedish daily Aftonbladet. Opinions expressed on this personal website are solely mine and not related to Aftonbladet.